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MACHINE FOR DRAWING AND SPINNING HEMP, C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,115, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed July 17, 1884. (No model.)

I 0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN G001), of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Drawing and Spinning Hemp and other Fibrous Materials, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is or may be applicable to the drawing and spinning or twisting of Va rious fibrous materials, but is more particularly intended for the drawing and spinning of hemp and flax for rope, yarns, and twine.

The invention relates to machines of the jenny type, wherein are employed fliers and spindles to which the sliver to be spun or twisted is presented by catenary' series of bars armed with gill-pins and carried or moved progressively forward by endless chains.

The important objects of my invention are to reduce the size and weight of machines of this class; to greatly reduce the floor-space occupied by a machine or machines having a given number of spindles; to enable the spindles and fliers to be driven at higher speed, and

to enable one attendantto properly attendto a greater number of spindles. The attainment of these objects enables me to produce machines which may be purchased at less cost and operatedmore economically than machines of the kinds heretofore used having an equal number of spindles.

The invention relates more particularly to machines in which several spindles and fliers are mounted in one or more vertical tiers in one spindle-stand, and in which all of the spindles and flyers in one stand have combined with them a single traverse-screw and suitable connections, whereby traverse or yarn guides are reciprocated lengthwise of the fliers to enable the yarn to be wound properly on bobbins or spools which are fixed lengthwise of their fliers, and have no traverse motion in their fliers. A spindle-stand and spindles and fliers arranged and combined with a traverse motion as above described are shown and described in my application for Letters Patent filed July 17, 1884, and of which the serial number is 137,908. I11 that 50 machine there are upper and lower groups of four spindles each, thus giving eight spindles in two vertical tiers.

My invention consists in novel combina tions of parts and details of construction which are hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims, and whereby the above-enumerated advantages are secured.

Before proceeding to a detail description of the machine and system of machines illustrated in the accompanying drawings, I will give a brief general description of the principal features thereof.

As before stated, the spindle-stand has its spindles and fliers in a vertical tier or tiers,- two or more spindles and fliers being arranged one over another. The sliveris .presented to the two or more spindles and fliers in' each vertical tier by a catenary series of upright bars, which are connected near their upper and lower ends by endless chains moving in horizontal planes and carrying the bars continuously in one direction and in their upright positions. The bars are provided with horizontally-extending arms armed with upright gill-pins, and each bar has as many. of such gill-pin arms as there are spindles in the vertical tier. If there are four spindles in each tier, then the bars will severally have four gillpin arms. The endless chains pass around and are moved or driven by chain-wheels on uprightshafts, and the bars armed with gill-pins are guided at their upper and lower ends in suitably-arranged tracks or ways. The lower track or way, in which each series of 'bars runs in the return movement,is preferably at a lower level than the track or way for the bars in their direct movement, and as the:

bars are carried around the chain-wheels most distant from the spindles their lower ends reach an upwardly-inclined portion of the direct track by which the bars are raised as they commence theirdirect movement in order to thrust their gill-pins directlynpward into the slivers which are passing to the several spindles. Atthe end of the direct track orway nearest the spindles is a sudden or abrupt drop,

and as the gill-pin bars reach this drop,, and before they are deflected laterally from their straight line of movement and around the chain wheels, they fall suddenly. and

thereby ,withdraw their gill-pins instantly from the several slivers and permit the gill-pins to sweep round under the several nippers through which the slivers are conducted. The gill-pin bars may fall by their own weight; but if not deemed sufficient the upper guide or way may be provided at the end adjacent to the spindles with a downwardly-inclined cam or cam-like portion, which forces or pushes the gill-pin bars down as they come against it. Any suitable construction of chain may be used for carrying the gill-pin bars; but the chain which I have devised especiallyfor the purpose consists of links each having a male and a female socket or eye at its ends, the male eye or socket of each link being slipped or entered into the female eye or socket of the link behind it, and the female eye or socket of each link receiving the male eye or socket of the link in advance of it. The eyes of the links are slotted or open on opposite sides to enable them to receive or be placed laterally upon the gill-pin bars, and after the male eye of the link has been placed laterally on a bar and then slipped downward into the female eye of the adjacent link the said bar is held loosely but securely in the links. This loose connection of the gill-pin bars and links facilitates the rising and falling movements of the bars in their chains at the beginning and end of their direct movement, and the bars are held against lateral movement and rattling in the links by the guides and tracks or ways at their upper and lower ends. \Vhen two tiers of spindles are arranged in a single spindlestand, two series of gill-pin bars are employed, arranged side by side and each operated by endless chains and in connection with guides and tracks or ways, as above described. The two upright chain-wheel shafts at the ends of chain-stand, adjacent to the spindles, are preferably geared together and operated by asingle shaft which receives motion from the driving-shaft of the machine.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a machine or machine-section embodying my invention, and in which are eight spindles. Fig. 2 is an end elevation on alarger scale of the spindle-stand and driving mechanism for the spindles, the drivingshaft and part of its supporting-framing being in section, and the driving-clutch being removed. Fig. 3 is an irregular vertical transverse section of the machine on the same scale as Fig. 2, the section being mainly on the plane of the dotted line aa", Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side elevation on the same scale as Figs. 2 and 3 of the upper portion of one of the chain-stands and appurtenances and a portion of the .adjaeent spindle-stand, the portion of the chainstand intermediate between the ends being removed to shorten the figure. Fig.5 isa view, similar to Fig. 4, of the lower portion of the chain-stand and aportion of the adjacent spindle-stand. Fig. 6 is a plan and partial irregular horizontal section of the two end portions of thechain-stand and appurtenances. Fig. 7 is a plan of one end portion of the direct and return tracks or ways with the semi-circular track or wayjoining them, and gill-pin bars working therein. Fig. 8 is a side view of chain-links on a much larger scale, and Fig. 9 is a plan of such links and a transverse section of gill-pin bars carried by the chains. Figs. 10 and 11 are diagramsrepresenting a side elevation and plan showing the arrangement of four machines such as are shown in Fig. 1, to form a jenny system with thirty-two spindles and fliers. Fig. 12 is a diagram representing a transverse vertical section on the plane of the dotted line 3 3 Figs. 10 and 11.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A A A designate the closed fliers in which are journaled the spindles B, and which have hollow journals a a extending from their heads A A. 7

O designates the bobbins or spools which are locked fast to the spindles B by bobbin-couplings C.

On the hollow flier-journal a of each flier is secured fast a flier-driving pulley, c, and on the portion of the said journal projecting beyond the pulley c is loosely fitted a pulley, 0, locked to the spindle B by notches and ears or lugs.

On the hollow journal a, at thefront end of each flier, is secured a capstan-head, D, the capstan-barrel of which is actuated by suit able gearing set in motion by a fixed pinion, d, concentric with the flier-j ournal, and in the forward end of each capstan-head D is secured a nipper, G, which rotates with the flier and spindle, and which operates in conjunction with a fixed nipper, G, here represented as secured to an arm or bracket, f. The construction and relative arrangement of the fixed and rotary nippers G G are fully shown and described in my application for Letters Patent filed July 18, 188i, and of which the serial number is 138, 04.4.

The bobbins O in this example of my invention have no lengthwise movement in the fliers, and the neeessarytraverse for winding the yarirs on the bobbins is produced by means of the travelers E, each carrying a guide-pulley, 8 or traverse-guide, and which are provided with sockets adapted to slide lengthwise of the longitudinal rods A of the fliers. The reciprocation of these ring-travelers E along the fliers produces the traverse necessary for winding the bobbins.

The spindle-stand here shown is composed of end frames or standards, F F, connected by rails or longitudinal stretchers F*, and comprising, also, a rearwardly-projecting portion F which is used when the machine or machine-section is to be used alone. The journals a a of the fliers are supported in the frames F F, and, as here represented, there are eight spindles and fliers arranged in upper and lower groups of four spindles each, thus giving four spindles in each vertical tier.

H designates a driving-shaft receiving mo- Ition through a clutch, H, from abelt, H

The clutch may be shifted to stop and start the machine by means of clutch-lever i,fulcrumed at to a bracket or support, and said clutch-lever is moved by means of a screw, 1', having at its head an arm, i which by a rod and arm, 6* 1;, is connected with a rockshaft, i extending lengthwise of andbelow the machine. with treadles t, by which it may be turned, and has weights 1' by which it is held in either position to which it may be adjusted. When the rock-shaft is turned by the foot of the attendant to stop or start the machine,one or other of the weights 1" comes to a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 3, andis then inoperative to turn the shaft, and atthe same time the other weight exerts a power on the shaft to prevent its turning back accidentally. Near the bottom of the machine is a longitudinal shaft, 7L5, which derives motion by a belt and pulleys, h h h, from the drivingshaft H. The shaft h is connected by wormgearing h with a vertical shaft, I, and this shaft I, by bevel-gearing la, transmitsrotary motion continuously in one direction to a traverse screw, J, which is arranged parallel with and intermediately between the spindles of the upper andlower groups.

' The traverse-screw J hasa compound thread or right and left hand threads intersecting each other, and upon it is mounted acarriage, L, containing a swivel-nut, and receiving a reciprocati'ng motion from the continuous rotation of the traverse-screw J. Such a traversei screw and swiveled nut are well known in spinning machinery.

In the center of each group of spindles and parallel with the spindles is a fixed guide-rod, l, and upon each guide-rod is a sliding circular head, K, which engages by circular tongues andgrooves with all the ring-travelersE of that group and which rotates with said trav'elers. The carriage Lhas upwardly and downwardly extending arms on, which engage with: annular grooves in the hubs of the circular heads K, and as the carriage is reciprocated it also carries with it the two circular heads K and the ring-travelers E of all the fliers. In this waythe traverse motion for all the spindles in the stand isoperated by a single traverse-screw.

The'construction, arrangement, and mode of operation of the several parts of the traverse motion are fully shown and described] in my application for Letters Patent filed July '17, 1884, and of which the serial number is 137,908, and as I here make no claim thereto no further description is necessary. The con stru'ction of the capstan -heads'D and the mechanism for operatin g their barrels are also fully d escribed in my application last above men- 5 l tioiied.'- 4

The fliers of the two groups are all operated The rock-shaft'z' is provided :by two belts, j j,which are best shown in Fig. i 2. Both belts pass around and receive motion from a pulley, j*, on the main shaft H, and one belt encircles all the pulleys cof the upper group of four spindles while the other belt similarly encircles all the pulleys c of the lower group of spindles. The spindles are all operated by two belt-s, jj,both of which pass on the driving-shaft H. One belt j encircles or passes around the pulleys c of the upper group of spindles, and the other belt j passes in a similar manner around all the pulleys c" of the spindles of the lower group. The belts j also pass around tension-pulleys j j which are carried by blocks "or slides j capable of vertical movement in slideways or channels 'f'*, and withsaid slides j'-* are connected cords or other flexible connections 1* r, by which by suitable gearing, 7' from the traverse-"screw J, or by anyother equivalent means. On" the ing with a worm-wheel, ji on a short horizon tal shaft, j and on the'latter shaft is a druui or windlass, flexible connection, j ,ezitends rearward. The cord j is attached to a pointer or indicator, M, which is pivoted at j to tlieframe M and is also connected therewith by aspriug', j.

The-power necessary tomove the tensionpulleys f j and increase thetensionof the shows to the attendant the degree of tension and the state of fullnessof the bobbins. V

The construction and arrangement of the mechanism for producingtension inthe dragmeans whereby the tension-pulleys maybe released and moved back by hand when thefull more fully shown 'and described in my appli' cation for Letters Patent filed July 19,1884", and of which "the serial number is 138,161, and I hereinake no'claim thereto. i i

It will be observed that the arms or bracktary nippers G, extend from the frame 'ard F of the spindle-stand. i

The general construction and arrangement viewed from one side of the machine, are best.

around and receive motion from a pulley, j*,

the tension-pulleys may be moved to increase spindle-driving belts j is exertedthrough the indicator or tell tale M M, and" the position of I ,the finger orindex on the scale t therefore" of the ch'ain-standand its' appurtenances, as

Both connections 4 r are attached'to a increase the j* designates an upright shaft which is driven IOO upper end of the shaft j isa worm, j fengag f", from whicha cord or other belts j, Whichdrive the spindles, and also the bobbins are replaced by empty bobbins,'are

ets f, which support the stationary or non-roorstandshown in Fig. 1; but in the detailed description of the several parts and their mode of operation, reference is made particularly to Figs. 3 to 9, inclusive. 7

The frame of the chain-stand consists, essentially, as here shown, of end uprights or standards, I 1", con nected by a longitudinal stretcher or arched brace, I. As shown, the standards 1 I are of T- shaped transverse section, and the stretcher or brace I is of I-shaped trans verse section.

The upright gill-pin bars h of the two series are provided with short horizontally-extending arms set with upright gill-pins Ii and the number of arms and their pins should equal the number of spindles in avertical tier. There being four spindles in each tier in this example of my invention, the upright gill-pin bars are each armed with four sets of gill-pins hi Near their upper and lower ends the gillpin bars h are connected by endless chains h, working in horizontal planes. Any description of chain in which the gill-pin bars b may move vertically may be employed; butI have represented in Figs. 8 and 9 a construction of chain which is very desirable. These chainlinks 75* have at one end a male socket or eye, 1, and at the other end a female socket or eye, 2, adapted to receive the male socket 1 of the adjacent link. The male eyes 1 arelonger than the female eyes 2, and the links are bent or deflected so that when connected the bottoms of all their eyes will be in the same horizontal plane and slide freely on a plane surface. The male eyes 1 are open or slotted at 1*, and the female eyes are similarly open or slotted on the opposite side at 2*, the slots or openings in both eyes being large enough to receive the gill-pin bar h. In assembling the links, the male eye 1 is slipped laterally on.

the gill-pin bar,which is then introduced laterallyin the female eye2 of the adjacent link, and the male eye 1 of the first linl; is then slipped downward into the female eye 2 of the adjacent link. hen thus connected the gillpin bars cannot escape laterally from the links; of the chain, but fit loosely therein so that they can slide freely upward and downward through the links.

At the end of the chain-stand,whicl1 is adjacent to the spindle-stand, are upright shafts h, which are mounted in arms or brackets 3,

projecting from and attached to the upright standard 1 The upright shafts h are driven by bevel-gearing h from a short cross-shaft, h, (best shown in Figs. 1 and 3,) and which receives motion through worm-gearing if from the longitudinal shaft h By this system of gearing the echain-driving shafts h are rotated in a direction to move the series of gill-pin bars and chains h h in'the direction of the arrows in Fig. 6.

On the upright shaftsh are chain or sprocket wheels 4, which engage the pin-bars h below the chains h, and other wheels, 4*, which engage said bars or rods above said chains, and

of which is shown in Fig. 4, and both of which are shown in transverse section in Fig; 3, and at their lower ends the said bars are guided and supported in their direct movement by tracks or ways h, and in their return movement by parallel tracks or ways h, arranged at a lower level than the tracks if. rect and return tracks or ways h h are joined at adjacent ends by semicircularportions 3* 5*, formed in the upper surfaces of the lower brackets, 3 5, and by these brackets the parallel tracks or ways If h are supported. At their lower ends the gill-pin bars h are furnished with horizontally-extending cams or toes h**,which are fitted to the tracks or ways h h 3* 5*, and thereby prevent the said bars from turning in the links of their chains. The several sliverssare taken from earns S, and are thence carried through funnel-like guides or throats 5*, and onward on the several sets of gill-pins 7% to the stationary or non-rotary nippers G.

At the beginning of the direct tracks or ways 7r are'upwardlydnclined portions h whereby the gill-pin bars h, as they commence their direct movement, are lifted to raise their setsof pins h directly into the slivers s, and at the beginning of the upper guides, M, are inclined portions In which receive the upper ends of the said bars h and guide them as they are lifted.

At the end of each direct track or way It is a drop or abrupt fall, 73*, and as the gillpin bars h reach this point they fall vertically, and their sets of pins h* are drawn directly downward out of the slivers and sweep round under the nippers G.

In case the weight of the bars h should be insufficient to insure their prompt fall, I arrange at the end of the upper guides, h, inclined or cam-like hinged sections 11 which tend to force the gill-pin bars h downward as they come against them.

The direct and return portions of the endless chains h are supported between their chain-wheels by tracks or supporting-rails 0, which are or may be L-shaped in transverse section, and which are shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6. The supporting-rails for the lower chains are supported by arms or brackets 0, extending upward from the tracks or ways h h, and the rails for the upper chains are supported by or suspended from arms or brackets I, bolted to the arched stretcher or brace 1 The di- A tions is not herein claimed as a part of this and 12. from which belts H transmit motion to the and also supporting the guides h", as shown in Fig. 3.

I In'order to add stability to the machine and hold thespindlestand and chain-stand in proper relative position, I connect the two stands at the'topby braces 1 '1 As I have before stated, the spindle-stand and chain-stand, with the parts supported-by them, form a machine which is complete in itself, and which will occupy much less floorspacethan a number of the machines now in usehaving in the aggregate eight spindles. I prefer, however, to use the machine as a quarter-section of a jenny or jenny system, such as shown by diagrams in Figs..10, l1, and 12.

Two machines or machine-sections are arranged side by side and in line with two othermachines 0r sections, which are reversed-in positlon relatively to the two machines or sections first mentioned. This arrangement .brings the'four spindle-stands at the middle of the length of the system. In this arrangement that portion of the spindle-stand which is designated F in Fig.1 should be omitted, and the spindle-stands which are in line are connected by alongitndinal brace or stretcher, Fi onwhich is supported a single bearing, 19, for the two separate driving-shafts H H.

At the top of the spindle-stands, which are in line, are bearings 9, for counter-shafts Hfl'from which belts H transmit motion to the driving-shafts H H, as shown in Fi'gs;10 Overhead is a driving-shaft, H

two counter-shafts H Each driving-shaft H should have a clutch, as shown in Fig. 1,to

provide for stopping any one machine or section without stopping the others, but I have not thought necessary to show the clutches in these diagrams.

Those spindle-stands which are side by side are connected by cross-braces F, and the chainstands which are sideby side are connected by other cross-braces, I,

at their remote ends.

This arrangement of four machines or sec- 'senting two or more slivers to the spindles,

and means for operating said series of bars, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, with two vertical tiers of spindles and fliers arranged sideby' side, a

common driving-shaft and mechanism operated by said shaft for driving the spindles and fliers of both tiers, of two catenary series of np'right' bars, provided with laterally-project- 6f a catenary series of upright bars armed with gill-pins, endless chains connecting saidbar's, and arranged to operate in horizontal planes, and upright shafts, and chain or sprocket wheels, and means of operating the said wheels to give motion to said chains and bars, substantially as herein described.

' 4c. The combination,with two or more spindles and fliers arranged one above another, and means for driving said spindles andflie'rs, of a series of upright bars armed withgillpins, endless chains connecting said bars,and in which said bars are movable vertically, means for driving said chains and bars, and a trackor way for the" lower ends of said .bars

in their direct or forward movement, having at one-end'anincline for liftingsaid barsto raise their'pinsinto the slivers, and at the other end adrop permitting said bars tofall in order to withdraw their pins from the sliv ers, substantially as herein described.

5. The combination,withtwo or mOreSpindles and fliers arranged f one above another, and means for driving them, of aseries'of upright bars armed with gill-pins, endless chains connecting said bars, and in which saidbars aremovable vertically, means, for operating said chains, the direct and return tracksor 'ways'lfi h, the forinerprovidedwith" the 11pward incline h atone end and the droph at the other end, substantiallya-s herein described.

6. The combinationnvith two or more spindles 'andfiiers arranged one abovefthe other and means for driving them, of aseries of uprightbars armed with gill-pins, endless chains connecting said :bars and in which thebars are movable vertically,means for operating said chains, the track or way If, comprising the incline 79 at one end andthe droph at the other end, and the upper guide, hiconi- 'prising the inclined canrlike' portion h substantially as herein described.

7. The combination,with two or more spindles and fliers arranged one above another and means for driving them, of a seriesof upright bars armed withgill-pins, and provided at their lower ends witn horizontally-extending toes or cam-like portions, endless chains aranged in horizontal planesand connecting said bars, means for operating said chains and bars, and a track or way receivingj -thef toes or. cam-like portions on the saidbars, and

in theirdirect movement, substantially-Yes herein described. V t

8. The combination,with two or more s indies and fliers arranged one above another and meansfor driving them, of aserics ofupright bars'armedwith gill-pins, endless 'chains I25 serving to prevent the turning of the barsdnr connecting said bars, and composed of links 7%, having male and female eyes fltted to each other and open at the sides to enable them to be slipped laterally on said bars, means for operating said chains, and tracks or ways supporting the lower ends of said bars, substair tially as herein described.

9. The combination with two or more spindles and fliers arranged one above another and means for driving them, of a series of upright bars armed with gill-pins, endless chains connecting said bars and arranged to work in horizontal planes, upright shafts and chain wheels for supporting and operating said chains, means of giving motion to said upright shafts, and supporting-rails for the chains between said chain wheels, snbstantially as herein described.

10. The combination, with spindles and fli ers arranged in upper and lower groups, forming two vertical. tiers, means for driving the spindles, pulleys on the fliers, a driving shaft and pulley for the fliers, and two belts, one passing around the pulley on the driving-shaft and the pulleys of the upper group of fliers,

and the other passing around the pulley on said shaft, and the pulleys of the lower group of fliers, of two catenary series of upright bars armed with gill-pins, and means for operating the two series of bars to present slivers to the spindles and fliers in the two vertical tiers, substantially as herein described.

11. The combination, with a spindle-stand composed of upright frames and longitudinal rails or stretchers, two vertical tiers of spindles and fliers journaled in said stand, and means for driving the spindles and fliers, of a chainstand, also composed of end standards and longitudinal rails or stretchers, two series of upright bars armed with gillpins, and endless chains connecting said bars, both an ranged and supported in said chainstand, means for operating said series of bars, and their chains and braces connecting the spindle-stand' and chain stand, substantially as herein described.

JOHN GOOD.

\Vitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, EMIL SCI-UVARTZ. 

